With Escape Plan, Director Mikael Håfström
delivers a B+ “B” movie.
No matter what any sissy wags may tell you, both
Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have aged well. Here, the “Governator,” especially, gives,
arguably, his most relaxed and coherent performance to date.
The clever script by Writers Miles Chapman and Arnell
Jesko sets Ray Breslin (Stallone) as an escape artist hired by the Prison
System to try and break out of penitentiaries in order to point out their flaws.
The story points up the inherent danger
of privatizing prisons by setting Warden Hobbs (Jim Caviezel) as the creator of
a secret maximum security prison where governments, corporations and miscreants
of all types can pay to have untried terrorists, competitors or even people
they don’t like permanently incarcerated. Hobbs has read Breslin’s book and, when
Breslin is hired to check out security, he finds that he has been set up to
remain there forever.
The sets created by Production Designer Barry Chusid are
amazing and Brendan Galvin’s cinematography is top notch.
If you like good action and want to see two superstars at
their best, you’ll enjoy Escape Plan. I give it a 3+ out of 5.
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